Grade 1 Ruidoso Futurity winner Lets Leave will start his stallion career at Solo Select Horses, LLC for the 2025 breeding season.

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GAINESVILLE, TX–NOVEMBER 21,2024–Butch Wise of Solo Select Horses, LLC, announced Thursday that Grade 1 winner Lets Leave will begin his stallion career in 2025 at the Gainesville, Texas facility. His introductory fee for the upcoming breeding season is set at $4,500.

Bred in California by Edward C. Allred, Lets Leave is out of the Walk Thru Fire stakes winning mare Time To Leave. The son of leading sire Favorite Cartel was purchased by, Barron Racing, LLC and Empire Racing, for $122,000 in the 2022 Los Alamitos Equine Sale.

Lets Leave started his race career in April of 2023, breaking maiden in his first of nine starts in the West Texas Futurity trials by 1 1/4-lengths, scoring his highest speed index of 103. He returned to the Grade 2 finals with a solid second-place finish.

In May, the sorrel colt moved to Ruidoso Downs. He clocked the fastest qualifying time on day two to the Ruidoso Futurity-G1 in his third out from 157 horses in 16 trials. He achieved his second career win by an impressive 5 1/2 length margin and clocked the second-fastest overall time to the finals.

In June, Lets Leave won the $1,000,000 Grade 1 Ruidoso Futurity finals from gate-to-wire, earning $420,000 for the effort. At that time, he was the only two-year-old in the nation to earn black type twice in graded stakes for 2023.

Lets Leave ended his two-year-old year with a record of 3-2-0 from five starts and $485,681 in the bank after a second-place attempt in the All American Futurity-G1 trials.

In May of this year, Lets Leave returned to Ruidoso Downs to win his first out of the season in the $832,707 Ruidoso Derby-G1 trials and returned for a spot in the finals where he placed a troubled sixth.

Last month, the multiple Grade 1 horse traveled to Los Alamitos, where he qualified for the $795,000 Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1 and returned to the richest race for three-year-olds and older for a third-place finish in the finals.

Butch Wise stated, “This is one amazing individual conformationally – he possesses show-stopper good looks, and being a Grade 1 winner at Ruidoso and now Grade 1 placed at Los Alamitos, his credentials for a stallion prospect are truly impeccable. From a breeder’s perspective, with Favorite Cartel as his sire and his first two dams being by Walk Thru Fire and Raise A Secret, his pedigree will be greatly attractive to owners of mares by Corona Cartel, Mr Jess Perry, Apollitical Jess, PYC Paint Your Wagon, Valiant Hero and several other leading maternal grandsires.”

Lets Leave is the first foal out of Denim N Diamonds Handicap winner Time To Leave ($46,886), who is a full sister to Grade 2 placed Shut Out ($73,608) and a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Snitcher ($261,181) and Grade 2 placed Long Gone ($186,904).

His second dam is the winning daughter of Raise A Secret, the All-Time Leading Dam of ROM Departing, who is a full sister to California Hi-Point Three-Year-Old Filly Feminista ($71,375) and half-sister to stakes winner Blanket Finish and stakes placed Bloke.

His sire, Favorite Cartel SI 104 ($607,669), is the #1 leading sire in the nation and a Grade 1 winner. From 10 crops of racing age, he has sired 123 stakes winners, seven champions and 790 winners with more than $52 million in money earners.

Favorite Cartel’s top performers include Trane Station V SI 97 (champion, $1,754,152, Los Alamitos 2 Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Cyber Attack SI 101 (champion 3 times, $1,721,346, Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Cartel Jess Rockin SI 96 (champion, $849,101, Los Alamitos 2 Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Tell Cartel SI 105 (champion twice, $796,386, Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1, etc.), Golden Boi SI 98 (champion twice, $721,647, Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, etc.), etc.

Wise added, “This is one of the premier female families of # 1 all-time breeder Dr. Ed Allred and includes All American Futurity winner Fly Baby Fly $1,314,742, Champion Higher Fire $1,314,742, Champion and Champion sire Separatist $889,044 and Champion Waymaker $617,444.”

“We are grateful to Hugo Barron and Mario Perea of Lets Leave Partners for this amazing opportunity,” Wise concluded.

For more information or breeding contracts, please call Solo Select Horses, LLC, at (903) 436-6615.

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